Maybe gamers out there do also
like text adventures and prefer them to 3D games, and maybe there are readers who like hypertext IF and reading static ebooks like novels — not sure.
Game designer Dan Harris» latest game jam title, aptly named Inventory, is part - Twine -
like text adventure and part puzzle game.
Not exact matches
Other notable releases this week include another pair of classic Arcade Archives games, Sengoku 2 and Star Force; the critically acclaimed
text adventure Subsurface Circular; the horror game Detention; the investigative game A Normal Lost Phone; the 2D platformer Little Triangle; and the Q - Bert -
like puzzler Totes the Goat.
The application for schools currently has 30 curriculum stories divided into different subjects, written
like an
adventure, with interactivities, narrations, languages, questions and answers, and free
text fields to encourage writing, where what it is seen and read is being reinforced.
Zork was a
text - based
adventure game that saw you exploring an underground world as an unnamed hero in search of wealth and
adventure (
like most unnamed heroes).
I recommend it highly to people
like my father in law, who was playing
text adventures in his college dorm and still remembers the early point - and - clicks fondly.
You go from basically a
text -
adventure game right into the 3D action - fighting of titles
like God of War or Batman's Arkham series.
How does making modern action games compare to making
text - heavy
adventure games
like The Silver Case or Flower, Sun, and Rain?
Maybe Make Some Change is a browser - based
text adventure based on the Maywand District killings in Afghanistan, in which a group of U.S. army soldiers allegedly formed a «kill team» last year that murdered unarmed Afghans and arranged the scenes to look
like insurgent attacks.
So the long - winded way of getting to the point is that one of the design ideas behind The Witness is that it is inspired by games
like Myst and... even
text based
adventure games, even to an extent of the feel of the world.
Maroney plays multi-user dungeon (known as MUD) computer games
like Cyber Assault and Alter Aeon, which offer
text - based
adventures that translate well to audio - only mode, putting blind and sighted gamers on an even playing field.
I wasn't crazy about House of Leaves, but I do love game books and
text adventures, and this seems
like a really formally unique take on that kind of design.
I'd extoll the virtues of its amazing graphics and the unique games that blossomed from classic developers
like Bullfrog, System 3 or Team 17, but they'd look at me funny and go back to their SNES or
text - based
adventure games on the PC.
For inspiration, we pulled from
text - based
adventure games and interactive stories, like Dungeons & Dragons and «Choose Your Own Adventure&raqu
adventure games and interactive stories,
like Dungeons & Dragons and «Choose Your Own
Adventure&raqu
Adventure» books.
It's time programmers looked out old computer
text adventures like Zork and Colossal Cave from the 1970s and 1980s.